Helping people create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time.
The New Rules of Gathering Guide
Unlock new and creative ways to transform your next event. Rethink the traditional ways we come together and understand how to infuse meaning and connection when planning for any occasion.
A Guide for Hosting Hybrid Gatherings
Improve your flexible workplace gatherings. Five ways to thoughtfully navigate your next team hybrid meeting.
The Art of Gathering Newsletter
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Unlock the artful gatherer within.
Anyone has the ability to gather well with the right set of skills. In this six-week digital learning experience, you’ll learn the core lessons to help you create and execute a meaningful and connected gathering at home, at work, or in your community.
Featured Articles
Why the more is not always the merrier
Generous exclusion is the intentional drawing of a temporary line for the good of the guests and to help activate and fulfill a gathering's purpose. By closing the door, you create the room. Here are five reasons why.
Become A Force For Better Gatherings.
This month, I want to focus on how to start actually shifting the gathering culture of your communities, whether at work or with family and friends.
The Art of *Hybrid* Gathering
The hybrid meeting – where some guests attend online while others are together in person – is on the rise. Yet it's incredibly clunky. And it doesn't have to be. Read more on practicing the art of hybrid gathering.
Hi, I’m Priya.
I come to you as a facilitator, strategic advisor, author, and educator.
I believe that everyone has the ability to gather well. My mission is to give you the courage, permission, and know-how to design meaningful, creative gatherings — in the places we work, live, and play — without all having to be the same.
I’m so happy you’re here.
Artful gathering is a practice to nurture and refresh. Here’s how Priya can help:
Take the Course
Learn the concrete skills to help you design and host a future gathering that is important to you at home, work, and in your communities.
Read the Book
A bold new human-centered approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together.
Book a Workshop
Equip your team with the practical skills and know-how to design meaningful group experiences for colleagues, partners, and customers.
Book Priya for Speaking
Challenge your audience to dig down to the root of why and how we make connections, create communities, and build organizations.
Gather Resources for Connection
What could your next gathering look like? Explore a number of resources to spark inspiration, feed your curiosity, and nurture your gathering practice.
Inquire about Advisory/Facilitation
A limited opportunity for deep mentorship for those in the public, political, and social movement-building space.
Wedding Planning Season is Upon Us!
For us Artful Gatherers, wedding planning season is where it’s at. Are you or someone you know in the middle of planning a wedding for themselves or someone else?
If so, Priya has compiled resources - a free guide, a Q+A video series, and related newsletters - into a wedding planning hub that can help you plan this important gathering with meaning, purpose, and intention for you, your family, and your community.
BOOK
The Art of Gathering
A human-centered approach to gathering that will help you create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and play.
The book will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue — and how you host and attend them.
PODCAST
Together Apart
Part guide, part reminder of the resiliency of the human spirit to still meaningfully gather, creatively — even when we’re apart.
Born in 2020 out of the peak isolation period of Covid-19, each episode helps us all to reimagine what’s possible in the online and hybrid gathering space — birthdays, graduations, dating, social justice movements, and more. This show is produced by Magnificent Noise, in partnership with The New York Times.